This introductory-level session will provide an overview of community-based participatory research (CBPR), an increasingly used approach of researchers collaborating with communities to ethically and effectively design research to address health disparities. Nina Wallerstein, Dr.P.H. and Lorenda Belone, Ph.D. from the RWJF Center for Health Policy and the Center for Participatory Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, at the University of New Mexico, along with one of their Tribal Partners, will present CBPR definitions and principles, the rationale for using this approach, as well as issues, challenges, and strategies for effective CBPR. Examples will be presented of the process of conducting CBPR, including research design and measurement, and its potential for achieving mutually beneficial outcomes, within communities and within University practices.
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Faculty: Nina Wallerstein, Dr.P.H. and Lorenda Belone, Ph.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico; Kevin R. Shendo, Pueblo of Jemez
Format: On-demand, streaming presentation with voiceover
Duration: 90 min.
Overview: This introductory-level session will provide an overview of community-based participatory research (CBPR), an increasingly used approach of researchers collaborating with communities to ethically and effectively design research to address health disparities. Nina Wallerstein, Dr.P.H. and Lorenda Belone, Ph.D. from the RWJF Center for Health Policy and the Center for Participatory Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, at the University of New Mexico, along with one of their Tribal Partners, will present CBPR definitions and principles, the rationale for using this approach, as well as issues, challenges, and strategies for effective CBPR. Examples will be presented of the process of conducting CBPR, including research design and measurement, and its potential for achieving mutually beneficial outcomes, within communities and within University practices.
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Nina Wallerstein, Dr.P.H., is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and was the founding Director of the Masters in Public Health Program at the University of New Mexico. She currently directs the Center for Participatory Research, Office of Community Health; and the Partnership for Health Research Unit, Clinical Translational Research Center at UNM. For over 25 years, she has been involved in empowerment/popular education, and participatory research with youth, women, tribes, and community building efforts. Her research focuses on community capacity and health development, culturally appropriate translational intervention research to reduce health disparities, participatory evaluation, and community based participatory research processes and outcomes. Her tribal research (funded by CDC, NARCH/NIH/NIDA) includes cultural capacity, social capital, and infrastructure assessments; and community and intergenerational culturally-centered and adapted interventions. She was the PI of the Southwest Addictions Research Group (NIAAA), whose purpose was to train junior faculty of color to reduce disparities among Native American and Hispanic communities; and co-director of the post-doctoral program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM, to train minority leaders in health policy. She is an editor of the first national textbook of CBPR, Community Based Participatory Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes, 2nd edition, 2008, San Francisco, Jossey Bass (with Meredith Minkler); was PI of a national NCMHD-funded grant to identify research strategies to assess facilitators and barriers of community-academic research partnerships; and currently co-PI, with the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center and the University of Washington, on a new NARCH V study to conduct internet surveys and case studies of CBPR partnerships nationwide to further enhance the science of CBPR.
Lorenda Belone, Ph.D. is Navajo and from the reservation community of Mexican Spring, NM. She recently earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico (UNM), Department of Communication and Journalism. Dr. Belone is also a research scientist with the Center for Participatory Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She received her M.P.H. from UNM with an epidemiology concentration where she gained valuable research experience and knowledge while being mentored by Drs. Nina Wallerstein and John Oetzel. She has been trained in community-based participatory research and has over ten years of CBPR experience with working with Native American Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo communities. She currently works on the Family Listening Project, a translational research project adapting an intergenerational family intervention trial that brings inquiry into culturally specific and evidence based concepts and practices. Her research area of interest focuses on the role of health communication strategies for translational research that involves the community as participants in a two-way mutual learning situation to improve community health, particularly tribal communities of the Southwest.
Kevin R. Shendo graduated with a BA in Political Science, with an emphasis in International Affairs, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 2001 Mr. Shendo has served as the Education Director for Jemez and in his responsibilities oversees the Early Childhood Programs (Head Start and Child Care), the Jemez Community Library, the Higher Education Center, School Operations and maintains a collaborative working relationship between the tribe and the San Diego Riverside and Walatowa High Charter Schools. Mr. Shendo was instrumental in the establishment and creation of the Walatowa High Charter School which opened its doors in the fall of 2003. In his spare time he continues his work with the Pueblo of Jemez Native American Youth Empowerment (NAYE) organization, which he co-founded in 1993 and since has served as the program's coordinator. In 2005 Mr. Shendo served an annual appointment as the 2nd Lt. Governor for the Pueblo of Jemez. He is Chair of the New Mexico Indian Education Advisory Council and serves as a Southern Pueblos representative on the 16 member council, nominated by the Southern Pueblos Governors Council and appointed by the New Mexico Secretary of Education.